I could swear that on my 2 XL I would press the power button and after the 30 second timeout, my screen saver would kick in and my phone would go black with only the floating time showing very dimly. Now, when I press the power button on my 4 XL, my phone never sleeps. The date/time stays on all night long never going off. The only way I can get the screensaver to kick in is to dock it on the charger while it is still on and then let it lock and go to "sleep" by itself. Am I imagining I did this on my other phone? How do I press the power button, have it lock, put it on the dock and then let the sleep screen saver kick in?
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It was Google's docking station. Something said make the docking station forget my pixel and then when it ask to "do more..." i hit skip. It still charges but now once I hit the power button which locks immediately and then dock it, the screen saver comes on after the specified time out.
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Has anyone noticed on either the Tilt or Kaiser that sometimes the device will not enter sleep mode?
It seems like when my Tilt running the stock AT&T Rom is on AC power, it will not enter sleep mode even though I have it set to sleep after 5 minutes on AC power. This is not while connected via USB to a PC running ActiveSync as that WILL keep the device alive, I'm talking about connected to the power brick.
After 5 minutes the screen will dim but not sleep. Running on battery power the timeout will usually happen. If it doesn't sleep the display just dims like it did above.
Settings for power are set to shut off after 5 minutes.
Any ideas?
Todd
I've noticed that mine does the same thing, just doesn't turn off when plugged into AC. I'm not aware of any "fix" for it persay, I just dismissed it as a minor bug of the OS. I would be curious if if anyone does have a solution to this, but it's not that big a deal IMO.
I noticed it also, but don't care. However, if it happens while on battery, try changing the time to something else and then back. My battery was draining QUICK and finally I realized that it wasn't turning off. Doing the above fixed it.
Thanks for the replies. Not that I feel better about it but at least others have the same issue. It's not a big deal if plugged, just wondering why.
Todd
I just got into the habit of manually hitting the power button and putting it to sleep before holstering it and right after pluging it in.
Same here, it would go to sleep on DC power but would stay awake on AC power.
Dont worry.
I'm sure it goes into sleep when you press the power button.
Ahhh, is that what that button is for?!
On Friday night the tablet ran itself down and shut off after watching some movies before bed. The screen and the rest of the tablet was functioning normally up to this point. I didn't bring my charger home with me from school, so it stayed dead for a few days. The tablet is now fully charged (or at least almost full. I left it on the charger overnight and this morning when I unplugged it I couldn't get the screen to turn on. At first I thought I forgot to plug the charger into the wall, but now I realized that the tablet *is* on, but the screen wont come on. My computer reads the device, and I can transfer files to/from.
When I hit the power/home button I immediately get a lock/unlock sound. Holding the power button to try to hard reset just makes it make the lock sound twice. Any advice here? Is my screen dead?
tdnookhd said:
On Friday night the tablet ran itself down and shut off after watching some movies before bed. The screen and the rest of the tablet was functioning normally up to this point. I didn't bring my charger home with me from school, so it stayed dead for a few days. The tablet is now fully charged (or at least almost full. I left it on the charger overnight and this morning when I unplugged it I couldn't get the screen to turn on. At first I thought I forgot to plug the charger into the wall, but now I realized that the tablet *is* on, but the screen wont come on. My computer reads the device, and I can transfer files to/from.
When I hit the power/home button I immediately get a lock/unlock sound. Holding the power button to try to hard reset just makes it make the lock sound twice. Any advice here? Is my screen dead?
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How long are you holding the power button. When I get the sleep of death under CM11 I have to hold the power button for a slow count of 15 then wait a few seconds and hold it again for a slow count of 3.
Seems like my 3T does not turn off when I turn it off via pressing the power button. When I have a charger connected it's easy to spot when the vibration goes off, but the charging light keeps lit - even when I remover the charger. It's also apparent that the device won't turn on when pressing the power button for three seconds. I need to press it about eight secs and then another two to turn it on.
Turning off works when rebooting the phone and turning it off from the bootloader (my device is unlocked) or when turning it off at the pin entry (have boot pin set).
Can anyone confirm?
Tested with clean system (no root, no Xposed) and still happening...
Turning off with the power button works on my device, powering up DOES take some time, 5-8 seconds of holding the power button down.
Seems like forever holding that power button!
Maybe I need to be more precise. Yes, I can "kill" the phone just holding that button for about ten seconds. But that's not the point. I suspect it does not power off properly.
To test, hook it up to the charger. Press power for about three seconds. Select "Turn off". Wait for the phone to vibrate. Charging light is on. If it'd be powering off correctly, it would kind of turn on again to show you the charging screen (battery symbol, then dash symbol). Does not do this for me. Instead it sits there... black. When I remove the charger, the charging light stays on.
To turn the phone on again, I then have to press power about ten seconds (turning it off), and then again to turn it on.
I tried your exact method, and my device shuts down (connected to the power cord, plugged in) normally, and them restarts while holding down the power button in 3 seconds.
When not connected to the dash charger, my device does power down very slowly as described in my earlier post (stock kernel)
My devices is rooted with the blue spark kernel though--so maybe that has some baring in my "normal" shut down/startup behavior.
I have the same bug to you... So I disconnected the cable...
Just wait for the future updates....
Went to sleep left Exynos S10e just fine. Woke up in the morning to pick up, it was on AOD I could see that it was on (or had some text on the screen at least). Press fingerprint to unlock, no response. Rather odd.
I immediately thought battery was finished. So I plug in to the wall charger, nothing. Phone was not charging at all. Press power, volume, bixby buttons while connected to charger - nothing.
So I left it on charge for 15 mins just for sakes. Come back, same same.
Then I came across a fix for such screen of death on google. While connected to the charger, I press volume down + power for 10 secs. Phone suddenly showed me the charging screen with 78% battery ongoing. It had been off all along (screen of death) as surely it had enough juice but could not wake up.
Since this brief hiccup has already been solved on my part. I would like to know if any other s10 users have previously faced screen of death where phone does not respond to normal action? This seems to be a rare occurrence on here as I cannot seem to find any other posts related to mine.
Thanks,
So basically my wife's phone has a broken power button, with the few times it's been turned off she just plugs it into the charger to start it and it boots up, so this time it went to the TurboPower screen and now it's just stuck there because without a power button it won't turn on or go past the TurboPower screen.
So is there any other way to exit TurboPower other than the power button? I'm going to try leaving it for an hour in hopes it just leaves by itself but I have doubts that will work.